Like the eye-rolling gesture it depicts, users primarily employ face with rolling eyes to show, with varying degrees of intensity, that they find someone or something irritating, uninteresting, unbelievable, undeserving, or unimpressive.
The shades of exasperation face with rolling eyes can convey are just as numerous as its names. “White supremacists committed most extremist killings in 2017 As Ashley Fetters argued in April 2016 for GQ, face with rolling eyes can function as a much-needed sarcastic tone marker, indicating that a message should be read as ironic, thus eliminating any confusion. Some think it can be quite useful in addressing the ambiguity that riddles electronic communication. At points in March 2017, Emojipedia featured face with rolling eyes as one of the most popular emoji on its site.įace with rolling eyes hasn’t just been popular, though. In February 2016, emoji keyboard provider EmojiXpress found that face with rolling eyes was the most popular emoji being used among Unicode’s new set by iPhone users at the time. #AncientAliens Theorist: “Humans can’t move large blocks, it must have been aliens.” “Actually our students built a 2,000 pound block that can moved with the flick of a finger.”įace with rolling eyes debuted in summer 2015 as part of a much-hyped batch of new emoji released by the Unicode Consortium. Face with rolling eyes goes by a lot of other names, including eye-roll, eye-rolling, roll eye, rolling eye(s), and rollover-eyes emoji